TV5110 - General Pathology

Available to graduate students with a degree in Veterinary Science (other appropriately trained graduates may enrol at the discretion of the Director of the Australian Institute of Tropical Veterinary and Animal Science).

This subject will address the mechanisms of disease processes. Thus, the general principles of pathobiology are covered with particular reference to the changes at the levels of cells, tissues and organs.

Learning Outcomes

• appreciate the cellular level the difference between cell degeneration and death, and adaption of cells to an altered extracellular environment;
• describe in general terms the procedures routinely used in diagnostic pathology;
• describe the cellular changes that occur in such states as genetic disorders, inflammation, immunopathology and neoplasia;
• understand how cells respond to injury of diverse type.

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